Beginners Guide

Teach Yourself Java 1.1 in 21 Days

Format: Paperback
Author: Laura Lemay
ReleaseDate: April, 1997
Publisher: Sams
Rating:

Java in 21 Days 1.1
However as soon as Charles L. I would say The Beginning is very good for people having no concept of OOPS and want to start with Java programming specially Laura Lemay, I would say is one of the best autor and having given good practical examples. Perkins takes over we are loosing our tracks totally. It cannot be useful because even a simple thing has made so complicated that it will cause you to think as if it is very difficult and there are no examples which you can try and understand. I am not sure want author is trying to achieve. I would suggest to new learners please don't even think of reading Charles L. Perkins portion, it will misguide you and you may loose your further interest in Learning Java.

short but concise descriptions, good for a beginner
Lemays other books. good book for a starter, very much like L. Everything is covered but in short. gives the general overview of JDK1. 1 and Java1. 1.

Good for first 13 days......rest crap
Lemay has done a nice job. The book is very good for beginners. The first 13 chapters written by Lemay are too good. However things get horrible after that. Perkins has done a poor job in his part of the book. The chapter on Multithreading is extremely weak. It finishes off in a few pages and does not even mention wait()/notify(). After chapter 13 the more further one reads the more bad the writing becomes. The chapter on JNI is absolutely incomprehensible. However the last chapter on JVM is good. Some important topics are not even mentioned in this book for none of the util classes like vector etc is covered. AWT is covered in 2 chapters but more detail is required . Some important concepts are not given like how to clone a object or how to use a StreamTokenizer class. The chapter on I/O has been just copied from API documentation -- don't try to learn I/O from this book. The networking chapter is also very poor. Too much focus on applets. No mention of the date and time classes.

Apart from these, advanced topics are not covered in this book : like JDBC, JavaBeans, RMI or the newer 1. 2 APIs like Swing,2D,EJB,JTS etc. But I will not complain about that because it is a beginner's book and there are are specialized books for each of the latter topics. Considering all these shortcomings, I will still recommend any beginner to buy this book because overall it is a good book. In fact, many may get angry at me if I say this, but still in my opinion the basic part of Java in this book is better covered than even Core Java (I have read it). Also the book is much cheaper than other beginner's book on Java. Overall a good buy . By the way, if you learn Java from this book, don't forget to buy the companion book: Teach yourself More Java in 21 days by Morisson.